Tara Labs ISM OnBoard The One, Part 17
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In the latter half of the 90s, I got to live with several models, lengths, and terminations of Tara Labs interconnects: RSC Master Gen 2; Decade; Air 1; The 2; ISM The One. In the latter half of the 90s, we were young adults. When we went to amusement parks, we felt a little weird. We were not little kids with our parents. We were not teenaged punks, having fun terrorizing the place. Nor were we parents with kids. To add insult to injury, a bee stung one of us.  In 2007, Martin Page made his own album, In The Temple Of The Muse. Tara Labs liked it so much, they came up with a model called The Muse (j/k!). My favorite song was "Everything You Do." And it was in 2007, where I truly started to use Tara Labs' ISM "OnBoard" models.  By the latter half of the 2000s, we were married and/or having kids. Disneyland and California Adventure were expensive, which made the prices of high-end audio more tolerable. While the lines at amusement parks were interminably long, and often in blazing heat, there were no lines for high-end audio. High-end audio was go-go-go, so you did not have to wait long, for audiophiles' older cables to become available. Anyway, during a long weekend trip to Anaheim, we left Tara Labs' ISM OnBoard The One on the audiodharma Cable Cooker. When we came back after 4 days, we felt that The One was over-Cooked.  We brought in a previously untreated sample of the ISM OnBoard The One. Most of the change occurred after one day. After the second day, grain is further reduced, After 3 days of Cook time, it was over-Cooked: kickdrum and bass were soft, and there was a diminution of snap and pop. So let's say that, for the single-ended ISM OnBoard The One, 2.5 days of Cook time is about right. That's merely half of a work week, or not even the entire holiday weekend. But with coronavirus, we may not want to frequent amusement parks. -Lummy The Loch Monster
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